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For businesses that operate outside normal trading hours, staff training is a primary strategy for armed robbery prevention, alongside ongoing improvements to technological security measures. Australian police websites provide prevention information based on the 'crime triangle' approach, which addresses the three aspects of an offender's willingness to commit a robbery: a suitable target, a motivated offender and the absence of a capable guardian (Cohen & Felson 1979).

Foreword | Seizing drugs and arresting those who import, manufacture, grow and/or distribute these drugs is often viewed as the most important purpose of drug law enforcement. This view is certainly strong in popular media depictions of organised drug criminals. Unfortunately, the reality is perhaps far less entertaining or straightforward, although just as, if not more, important.

To help combat domestic and family violence the Australian Capital Territory arm of the Australian Federal Police, ACT Policing, began the Family Violence Intervention Program in May 1998. The program maintains a database on family violence incidents with the aim of assisting ACT Policing to improve its responses to such incidents. The incidents recorded in the database include each occurrence of family violence in the ACT in which police were either involved or notified, and include events leading up to police arrival at an incident and during police presence.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Deaths in prison custody
• Deaths in police custody and custody-related operations
• References
• Appendix A: Methodology
• Appendix B: Data tables - Deaths in custody 2020–21 key findings
• Appendix C: Data tables - Deaths in custody by custodial authority, 1979–80 to 2020–21
• Appendix D: Data tables - Deaths in prison custody, 1979–80 to 2020–21

The 2004 National drug strategy household survey shows that amphetamine-type stimulants rank second in the most recently used illegal drugs in Australia. Through the quarterly drug testing of police detainees, as part of the Drug use monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program, it is possible to track changes in methylamphetamine use between 2000 and 2004. Applying a logarithmic trend indicates that the proportion of police detainees who tested positive to methylamphetamine has generally increased over this five-year period.

Amphetamine use is increasing, according to a report released by the Australian Institute of Criminology that is based on data from interviews of police detainees in four sites within Australia (Bankstown NSW, East Perth WA, Parramatta NSW and Southport Qld). The detainees participated in surveys on their drug use and criminal history as well as being asked to provide a urine sample as part of the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) project.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Deaths in prison custody
• Deaths in police custody and custody-related operations
• References
• Appendix A: Methodology
• Appendix B: Data tables - Deaths in custody 2018–19 key findings
• Appendix C: Data tables - Deaths in custody by custodial authority, 1979–80 to 2018–19
• Appendix D: Data tables - Deaths in prison custody, 1979–80 to 2018–19

This report is funded by Victim Support ACT and ACT Policing. Since the completion of the report in 2009, Victim Support ACT and ACT Policing have used it to facilitate better access to support services for people affected by crime.

Note: Second edition of this title published in 1990.